Necktie-fastener.



UNITED STATES PAT T OFFICE.

JAMES A. CLINTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK.

N'ECKTIE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,382, dated July 22, 1902. Application filed April 8, 1902. Serial No. 101,872. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JAMES A. CLINTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Fasteners, of which the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. My invention relates to a convenient form of necktie-fastener, the object being to secure the necktie directly upon the collar-button. Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section of my complete device, showing certain details in elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view, somewhat enlarged, of the parts secured to the necktie. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the collar-button for engaging the structure shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same.

The respective ends 1 2 of the collar-band of a shirt are disposed in alinement with the ends 3 1 of a collar in the usual manner. A collar-button consisting of a large disk 5, connected by a cylinder 6 with a small disk 7 and a boss or bulb 8, is provided for performing the usual function of a collar-button and also for engaging the member secured upon the necktie or cravat.

The necktie or cravat is shown at 9 and is provided with the usual card 10. A round flat plate 11 is provided with tongues 12, which may be bent into the. form of hooks, as indicated in Fig. 1, after being inserted through the card and the substance of the necktie. Upon this plate 11 is mounted an annular dome 13 and an annular washer 14, of resilient material. Upon this washer is mounted a plate 15, provided with a central bulb 15 and also provided with sector-shaped spring members 1617 18 19, formed in said plate by cutting'slots 20 therein, as shown more particularly in Fig. 2. The washer 14 is for the purpose of affecting the resilience of the sector-shaped members 16 17 18 19, as hereinafter described. The parts are assembled by placing the card 10 upon the necktie, inserting the sharp tongues 12 through the card and necktie,and bending thetongues into said card upon said necktie.

the form of hooks for the purpose of clenching The dome 13 is permanently secured upon the plate 11. The annular filling 14 is placed upon the dome. The plate 15, provided with the bulb 15 is placed upon the filling, so that the bulb enters the annular aperture 21 in the center of the dome. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) The resilient washer lt projects between the dome 13 and the spring-plate 15 for the purpose of giving more resilience to the sector-shaped members 16 17 18 19. The bulb 15 should be permanently secured in the CGHtGLqOf the dome 13, the resilient Washer 14 being tightly squeezed between the edges of the dome and bulb, so as to be permanently retained in position. To all intents and purposes the dome 13 and the spring members 16 17 18 19, together with the intermediate resilient washer, may be regarded, collectively speaking, as one member,

the collar-button proper, provided with the bulb 8, being the other member of my necktie-fastener.

My device is used as follows: The collarbutton being placed in the shirt and collar, as is any other collar-button, the necktie is raised into position and the sector-shaped members 16 17 18 19 are snapped over the bulb 8, which is thus made to occupy and to fill theconcavity 15, disposed in the resilient plate 15. To remove the necktie, itis merely pulled outward, whereupon the spring members 16 17 18 19 are slightly distended and the bulb 8 thus withdrawn from the concavity.

Having thus' described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A necktie-fastener, comprising a collar button provided with a boss, and a member provided with fastenings, whereby it may be secured upon the necktie, said member consisting of a fiat plate surmounted by an an nular dome, and a spring-plate provided centrally with a hollow bulb for engaging said boss, said spring-plate being mounted upon said dome, and said bulb constituting a concavity therein, said spring-plate being further provided with slotsradiating from said bulb for the purpose of yielding slightly when said boss is forced into said concavity.

2. A necktie-fastener, comprising a collarbutton provided with a boss, a member proboss is forced into said concavity, and a revided with fastenings whereby it may be sesilient washer disposed between said springcured upon the necktie, said member conplate and said dome.

sisting of a fiat plate surmounted by'an an- In testimony whereof I have signed my I5 5 nular dome, a spring-plate provided centrally name to this specification in the presence of with a hollow bulb for engaging said boss, two subscribing witnesses.

said spring-plate being mounted upon said dome, said bulb constituting a concavity JAMES CLINTON therein, said spring-plate being further pro- [0 vided with slots radiating from said bulb for Witnesses:

GEO. HY. HEMBOCKEL,

the purpose of yielding slightly when said i VILLIAM H. MEYERS. 

